Megachurch Pastor Reacts To MLB SCANDAL Targeting Christian Players | Live Free with Josh Howerton
6/19/20261 hr 7 min
What happens when Christian conviction collides with cultural pressure?
In this bonus episode of Live Free, Pastor Josh Howerton reacts to the MLB Pride Night controversy involving San Francisco Giants players who wrote a Bible verse on their hats instead of participating in Pride messaging. Josh explores what this moment reveals about faith, courage, religious freedom, and the challenge of standing firm without losing compassion.
In This Episode:
You can love people deeply without approving of everything they do.
You can stand firmly on biblical truth without losing compassion.
And in a moment like this, Christians must do both.
Stand firm. Think biblically. Live free.
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First 90 secondsJosh Howerton· Host0:00
Never, ever, ever believe them when they say that what they're about is tolerance. They are not about tolerance. They are about submission. If their primary value was tolerance, they would be very tolerant of Christian convictions, but they're not. Why? Because something else is going on. What's going on is tolerance for me, submission for thee.
Speaker 20:21
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Josh Howerton· Host1:11
Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to what is gonna be a very interesting, a little spicy, and maybe at times confusing bonus episode of Live Free. I am back from vacation with Jana, and, uh, really good to hop in. Um, it's been an eventful week. I'm gonna tell you right now what we're gonna talk about. Um, in the last week, or the last couple weeks, three Giants